You take your average male ballerina in your average high school in America and you can bet that the day after he appears in front of the entire school in tights something awful is going to happen. But it didn't play out that way.

When she was twenty-five, Catherine Sturdivant lost her three-year-old daughter to a hungry alligator. They’d been blowing bubbles in the backyard when the alligator came from nowhere and dragged the little girl into the water.